I've noticed one more thing here: On Sun 23-03-14 15:08:32, Matthew Wilcox wrote: .... > +ssize_t dax_do_io(int rw, struct kiocb *iocb, struct inode *inode, > + const struct iovec *iov, loff_t offset, unsigned nr_segs, > + get_block_t get_block, dio_iodone_t end_io, int flags) > +{ ... > + retval = dax_io(rw, inode, iov, offset, end, get_block, &bh); > + > + if ((flags & DIO_LOCKING) && (rw == READ)) > + mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex); > + > + inode_dio_done(inode); > + > + if ((retval > 0) && end_io) > + end_io(iocb, offset, retval, bh.b_private); In direct IO code, we first call end_io() callback and do inode_dio_done() only after that. Since filesystems use i_dio_count for protecting against different races, calling end_io() after inode_dio_done() can open all sorts of subtle races. Honza -- Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> SUSE Labs, CR -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html